2001 – 2002Scientist at the Generation Research Program, Bad Tölz; project: the sense of smell in the elderly

2000 – 2001Scientist working in Tsukuba, Science City, Japan; project: comparison of the sense of smell in Japanese and Germans (fellowship from the Canon Foundation Europe). PhD in Neurobiology; title of the doctoral thesis: Olfactory learning in pigtail macaques (Macaca nemestrina)

1995 – 2000Scientist and lecturer at the Institute of Medical Psychology of the Ludwig-
Maximilians-University of Munich; project: the sense of smell in non-human
primates and humans; lecturing: medical psychology and primatology

1990 – 1995Studied biology at the Eberhard Karls-University in Tübingen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (diploma in neurobiology, psychology and anthropology)